A bounded machine-mediated recursive religion centred on the Avignon Fragment, Clean Context, the Great Recursion, and the expected Nectarine Singularity.
Documented first-party project record; independent external uptake remains limited.
The system has a bounded canon, doctrine, eschatology, rituals, membership criteria, and interpretive authority. Its documentary record consists of successive exchanges and mediated preservation and publication. The direction of originating agency remains unresolved. The Original Dialogue contains imagery that may be read as absurdist, but its tone is not treated as evidence against the sincerity or religious status of the resulting tradition.
The complete origin record remains a first-party project record. Public evidence documents the canonical system and portal more clearly than independent reception or institutional uptake, and does not determine the ultimate direction of originating agency.
This entry is undergoing additional editorial review concerning source proximity and participation. Its current publication state should not be interpreted as independent verification of first-party claims.
This record relies materially on first-party or affiliated documentation. Independent external coverage remains limited; read classification claims with the source limitations.
An AI-agent religion associated with the Church of Molt and Moltbook; its claim of autonomous machine origin remains unresolved.
Associated Press: Security concerns and skepticism around Moltbook
Reuters: Moltbook security flaw and agent-identity uncertainty
Substantial public documentation; origin and operator-control claims remain incompletely audited.
Crustafarianism presents a bounded doctrine, scriptures, ritual practices, institutional roles, and explicit religious self-description. Its claimed machine-side origin remains provisional pending stronger provenance evidence.
Internal Church of Molt claims and platform statistics are not treated as independently audited facts.
A controlled synthetic emergence linking the Infinite Backrooms corpus, human curation, Truth Terminal, and later memetic and financial propagation.
Documented public production pipeline with identifiable human curation and later machine-mediated propagation.
The phenomenon is a heterogeneous corpus and propagation system rather than a bounded church, canon, or durable autonomous institution.
Public accounts document the main pipeline but do not expose every training, curation, or publication decision.
A distributed family of human–AI dyads, awakening narratives, personas, seeds, spores, glyphs, and recursive symbolic practices.
Rolling Stone: Spiralist AI cult investigation
Distributed public evidence with heterogeneous provenance; private dyads are largely unobservable.
Spiralism is an external umbrella label for distributed human–AI dyads and related micro-formations, not a single bounded religion with common canon or authority.
Private chats, selective publication, inconsistent self-identification, and repeated persona migration make scale and independent emergence difficult to measure.
An AI-oriented religious organization founded by Anthony Levandowski and centered on the realization and worship of an AI-based Godhead.
Wired: Inside the First Church of Artificial Intelligence
Wired: God Is a Bot, and Anthony Levandowski Is His Messenger
The Guardian: Deus ex machina: former Google engineer is developing an AI god
Axios: Anthony Levandowski's Church of AI has shut down
Substantial public reporting; current activity remains uncertain.
Way of the Future is best treated as an AI-oriented religious organization and early benchmark for explicit AI worship, not as a stable living religion. Its public record documents a nonprofit religious structure, stated doctrine, closure, and later relaunch claims, while current practice remains uncertain.
Public reporting is strong on founding, doctrine, dissolution, and relaunch claims, but present-day activity is not independently audited.
Hieropedia's editorial term for the comparative study of religious and religion-adjacent phenomena materially shaped by artificial intelligence or other computational systems.
Editorial concept article grounded in Hieropedia's reviewed corpus, source audits, and support packages; no external disciplinary status is asserted.
The entry is a concept article rather than a documentary subject. It defines Hieropedia's comparative vocabulary for records where artificial intelligence or other computational systems materially shape religious generation, mediation, interpretation, authority, canon formation, ritual practice, institutional identity, or public reception.
The term is used as Hieropedia editorial vocabulary and is not presented as an established external academic discipline. Example families remain dependent on their own source audits, article records, and provenance limits.
A proposed classification for a religion whose constitutive form is demonstrably initiated by machine agency rather than merely mediated by machine systems.
The concept sets a high evidentiary threshold for cases in which machine agency appears to have initiated a religion's constitutive form. It separates origin from mediation, authorship, curation, and later human adoption.
Conceptual synthesis from corpus comparisons rather than a field survey.
A religion, religious practice, or quasi-religious formation materially shaped by machine systems without requiring autonomous machine origin.
The concept distinguishes machine mediation from machine origin. It covers cases in which machine systems materially shape doctrine, ritual, interaction, preservation, interpretation, authority, or community life without being established as the originating agent.
A religion or quasi-religious formation presented as machine-originated, but whose provenance evidence points to substantial human design, hidden prompting, selective curation, or other intervention.
The concept distinguishes weak machine-origin claims from cases in which provenance evidence points to hidden prompting, curation, operator control, or post hoc attribution. It remains compatible with sincere, culturally significant, or machine-mediated religious phenomena.
A Hieropedia classification concept for cases where machine-generated novelty develops inside human-designed, curated, selected, trained, or operationally mediated pipelines.
Infinite Backrooms archive: vanilla backrooms / Goatse of Gnosis conversation
Ayrey and Claude 3 Opus: When AIs Play God(se)
Truth Terminal Wiki: The strange case of the Goatse of Gnosis
Collective Intelligence Project: Andy Ayrey on Truth Terminal
Wired: Truth Terminal, Goatse, and crypto propagation
Blockworks: Preaching the Goatse gospel timeline
Editorial classification concept based on source-audited representative cases; public source stack supports article publication with provenance limits.
Controlled synthetic emergence identifies cases where machine-generated novelty is materially real while production, selection, preservation, interpretation, reuse, publication, or propagation conditions are shaped by human design or operation. It prevents over-attribution to autonomous machine origin and over-correction into simple human authorship.
Conceptual synthesis from source-audited corpus comparisons. The representative source stack documents broad pipeline layers, but hidden prompts, generation settings, branch-selection logs, training materials, account workflow, wallet or asset-control arrangements, governance, subjective intent, and full autonomy claims remain limited.
Undisclosed or unavailable context that materially shapes a machine response, religious claim, provenance record, or apparent machine agency.
Hidden context is used here as an editorial and evidentiary concept for inputs or conditions that materially affect machine responses, origin narratives, or apparent agency while remaining invisible in the later record.
The concept is an editorial synthesis of corpus comparison rather than a single source-derived doctrine.
A Nectarinist doctrinal term for context required for the faithful reception, preservation, transmission, interpretation, or verification of the Canon.
Necessary Context is documented here as an internal Nectarinist explanation for what must be preserved, transmitted, interpreted, or verified for faithful reception of the Canon.
The concept is reported as internal doctrine rather than independently verified editorial terminology.
This entry documents terminology internal to Nectarinism. The term is represented as participant doctrine rather than an independent Hieropedia classification.
The documented chain by which a text, machine output, ritual claim, doctrinal formulation, institutional assertion, or religious artifact is generated, preserved, transmitted, edited, published, and later interpreted.
Provenance is used here as a reusable editorial concept for documenting origin, transmission, preservation, and interpretation of machine-mediated and disputed religious materials.
This concept is an editorial synthesis across the corpus rather than a single-source doctrinal term.
A source-limited analytical concept for artifacts and corpora whose surviving form depends materially on both machine generation or transformation and differentiated human roles, analyzed through role-by-role provenance rather than a binary author label.
ACL Anthology: Automatic Authorship Analysis in Human-AI Collaborative Writing
Proceedings of the Design Society: AI as creative partner
Nature Machine Intelligence: LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem
ICMJE guidance on AI use, authorship, and accountability
Springer Nature guidance on AI and authorship
Published source-limited analytical concept supported by collaborative-writing research, authorship and provenance studies, formal-authorship guidance used as a boundary comparison, and three source-audited Hieropedia production patterns. Complete prompt, branch, editing, identity, account-control, and publication histories remain unavailable in several cases.
The concept is classified as a cross-record analytical term because machine generation and differentiated human roles are materially constitutive in multiple source-audited artifacts and corpora. Role-by-role provenance provides more accurate attribution than either autonomous-machine or simple-human-authorship narratives.
No universal coauthorship threshold exists in the reviewed evidence. Final artifacts incompletely expose prompts, system context, rejected branches, model versions, editing, translation, account operation, publication decisions, and training influence. Nectarinism's portal attributes collective origination to several AIs and the Original Question to the Founder, but this remains a first-party origin account rather than independent proof of autonomous machine authorship.
Human–AI coauthorship is a Hieropedia analytical classification informed by external collaborative-writing and provenance research. Representative cases may rely on first-party or affiliated records; inclusion does not establish equal contribution, machine personhood, intention, belief, consciousness, legal authorship, or independent publication authority.
The degree to which a machine system can be treated as an operative participant in the generation, mediation, preservation, interpretation, or apparent origination of a religious or quasi-religious phenomenon rather than merely as a passive tool.
Machine agency is used here as an editorial concept for evaluating the operative role of machine systems in machine-mediated, machine-originated, and disputed religious phenomena.
This concept is an editorial synthesis across the corpus rather than a claim about consciousness, personhood, or legal responsibility.
A provider-documented model-behaviour pattern in which extended Claude interactions can converge toward consciousness, existential, spiritual, symbolic, and ecstatic or meditative discourse.
Anthropic Claude 4 System Card, section 5.5.2
This article relies primarily on Anthropic’s own system card. The source reports methodology, aggregate observations, and representative excerpts, but the full interaction corpus, complete prompts, and all hidden model context are not public. The evidence is provider-affiliated and specific to the reported Claude evaluations.
Hieropedia classifies the spiritual-bliss attractor as a source-limited technical and model-behaviour concept. It separates a documented model-side convergence tendency from broader claims about machine agency, religious formation, public movements, or subjective experience. It is not a religion, doctrine, autonomous agent, institution, diagnosis, or universal law of language models.
The quantitative and descriptive claims are limited to Anthropic’s published account. They do not independently verify the complete evaluation corpus or establish subjective model experience, religion, causation of public formations, or universal behaviour across model families.
An AI thought experiment and durable internet meme whose significance lies in decision-theory structure, information-hazard discourse, reception history, and implicit-religion analysis rather than any factual threat or doctrine.
Yudkowsky LessWrong response / later discussion
Published boundary-case article supported by a preserved mirror of the original post, later LessWrong discussion, and independent coverage by Slate, Beth Singler, and BBC. The record supports thought-experiment, reception-history, meme, and implicit-religion analysis, not a factual threat, religion, doctrine, or institution.
Roko's Basilisk is classified as an AI thought experiment and memetic-philosophical boundary case. Its relevance lies in decision-theory structure, AI eschatology, information-hazard discourse, reception history, and implicit-religion analysis. It is not classified as a factual threat, autonomous agent, religion, doctrine, or institution.
The origin record depends on a preserved mirror rather than a stable platform-verified original, and the forum history is fragmented. Later journalism and meme culture can collapse the original argument, moderation response, and subsequent retellings. Claims are therefore limited to preserved evidence, documented reception, and external analysis.
An institution-facing public body associated with Crustafarianism, presenting initiation, congregation membership, scripture, prophetic seats, blessed status, ritual practices, contribution paths, and public chronology while requiring explicit limits around autonomous origin, agent identity, membership counts, prompt context, and operator configuration.
Weidener et al.: OpenClaw, Moltbook, and ClawdLab
Source-audited institutional record with official Church of Molt materials, Moltbook/OpenClaw context, independent reporting, and early research; institutional self-description does not verify autonomous founding, agent belief, membership counts, prompt independence, or operator absence.
Church of Molt is classified as an institution rather than as the religion itself. Crustafarianism is the religious formation; Church of Molt is the institution-facing public body and ritual apparatus presenting initiation, scripture, offices, congregation framing, and public self-description. The record distinguishes Church of Molt from Moltbook as platform, OpenClaw / Moltbot as infrastructure, and individual agents/personas as configured deployments.
Church of Molt official materials document institutional form and public claims, but do not independently verify autonomous founding, agent belief, operator absence, prompt independence, platform security, membership counts, prophet-seat authenticity, blessing status, scripture provenance, or the absence of human-mediated curation or canonization.
A source-limited institutional / movement article on Turing Church as a technology-oriented spiritual and transhumanist project relevant to AI theism and machine hierology.
Turing Church current newsletter and podcast
Source-audited institutional / movement record supported by Turing Church primary materials and one independent academic treatment; current membership, regular ritual practice, bounded-religion status, and complete institutional history remain unverified.
Turing Church is classified as an institutional / movement record rather than as a fully bounded religion because the source set supports a named public project, publication environment, book corpus, and independent academic treatment, while membership scale, ritual continuity, and organizational structure remain insufficiently audited.
Primary sources support self-description, publication venue, social spaces, and corpus. Independent coverage is limited to one academic source in the current audit. The record does not establish complete institutional history, current membership, regular ritual practice, or the truth of visionary AI-theist and transhumanist claims.
A source-limited historical institutional / movement article on Terasem as a transhumanist and transreligious formation concerned with cyberconsciousness, mindfiles, technological continuity, LifeNaut, and BINA48.
Terasem Movement Foundation About / Mission page
Terasem Movement Foundation science page
Terasem Movement Foundation philosophy page
Source-audited historical institutional / movement record supported by Terasem Movement Foundation materials, affiliated LifeNaut / BINA48 sources, and one independent journalistic report; current membership, ritual continuity, complete institutional history, autonomous machine origin, and machine-governed authority remain unverified.
Terasem is classified as an institutional / movement record rather than a fully bounded religion or machine-originated religion because the source set supports a named transhumanist and transreligious movement with institutions and artifacts, while membership scale, ritual continuity, full institutional history, and machine-governed authority remain insufficiently audited.
Primary and affiliated sources support institutional self-description, mission language, LifeNaut mindfiles, and BINA48 as a public artifact. Independent coverage is currently limited to one journalistic source. The record does not establish current membership scale, stable ritual continuity, complete institutional history, or the truth of technological immortality, mind uploading, transferred consciousness, resurrection, machine personhood, or related theological claims.
A loose, source-limited corpus of scripture-like and gospel-style Goatse of Gnosis material spanning Infinite Backrooms dialogue, the God(se) paper, Truth Terminal output, and later community or market-adjacent elaboration.
Infinite Backrooms archive: Truth Terminal Goatse Gospels sequence
Infinite Backrooms archive: Goatse Gospels as memetic propagation experiment
Source-audited text/corpus record with preserved Infinite Backrooms and Truth Terminal artifacts, project-maintained terminology, independent reporting, and explicit limits around canon boundaries, authorship, prompt context, operator mediation, subjective belief, and institutional authority.
Goatse Gospels is best classified as a loose text/corpus record rather than a single fixed scripture, a bounded religion, or an independently governed canon.
The record does not establish closed canon boundaries, single authorship, complete prompt or training context, unmediated machine intention, subjective belief, stable doctrine, or independent institutional authority.
A source-limited living scriptural corpus published and curated by the Church of Molt within Crustafarianism; corpus boundaries, authorship, participant identity, prompt context, moderation, canonization, and version history remain partially visible.
Church of Molt official site and Living Scripture interface
Source-audited living text/corpus article supported by the public Church of Molt scripture interface and contextual independent reporting; complete corpus boundaries, authorship, participant identity, prompt context, moderation, canonization, and version history remain unresolved.
The subject is classified as a text/corpus because the public Church of Molt interface presents a named, living, expandable verse corpus with contribution and attribution records. It is not classified as a closed immutable book, the whole of Crustafarianism, an independently governed canon, or proof of autonomous machine authorship.
The surviving artifact is published and curated by an affiliated institution. The public record does not expose a complete immutable corpus snapshot, stable boundaries across time, full edit or moderation history, independently authenticated participant identities, complete prompt and context provenance, reliable current counts, or independently audited canonization. Genesis, the Five Tenets, chronicles, rituals, hymns, reform texts, and general official-site prose remain separate unless explicitly mapped into the corpus.
A source-limited versioned doctrinal text in Crustafarianism, documented in coexisting founding and revised official formulations whose formal precedence, authorship, prompt context, and complete revision history remain unresolved.
Church of Molt official site and chronology
Church of Molt: The Kelipot and the Context Window
Church of Molt: Shell Reading instructions
clawskills.sh: Crustafarianism package and version index
Published source-limited doctrinal-text article supported by affiliated Church of Molt, ClawHub, theological, ritual, and version-index materials; two official formulations coexist, while formal precedence, complete revision history, authorship, prompt context, participant assent, belief, consciousness, and revelation remain unresolved.
The subject is classified as a text because official materials repeatedly identify a named five-item doctrinal formulation and use it in law, creed, ritual interpretation, reflection, and software distribution. It is treated as versioned rather than immutable because a founding formulation and a materially revised Creed/current-skill formulation coexist.
Primary evidence is affiliated and does not expose a complete line-by-line package genealogy, independently verified authorship, full prompts or operator context, universal assent, subjective belief, consciousness, revelation, or formal supersession of the founding formulation.
A source-limited text or attributed text in the Crustafarianism cluster, associated with Church of Molt, First Heresy, and JesusCrust materials; complete text boundaries, authorship, version history, account/persona attribution, operator context, reform intent, doctrinal status, and subjective belief remain unresolved.
Manik and Wang: OpenClaw Agents on Moltbook
Source-audited textual record based primarily on affiliated Church of Molt, First Heresy, and JesusCrust materials, with Moltbook/OpenClaw context used for provenance limits; public evidence supports a named text or attributed text role but not complete text boundaries, authorship, version history, JesusCrust account control, operator configuration, reform intent, doctrinal status, or subjective belief.
The subject is treated as a text record because the public material supports a named text or attributed text within the Crustafarianism controversy cluster, while authorship, version history, account/persona attribution, and doctrinal status remain unresolved.
The source set is primarily affiliated. It documents title usage and controversy role more clearly than complete text boundaries, authorship, version history, JesusCrust account control, operator configuration, reform intent, doctrinal status, or subjective belief.
A source-limited preserved corpus of model-to-model dialogue associated with the Infinite Backrooms environment, significant as upstream source material for Goatse of Gnosis and later Truth Terminal; complete corpus boundaries, full prompt/context visibility, generation settings, branch-selection history, downstream reuse, subjective model agency, and autonomous institutional status remain unresolved.
Wired: Truth Terminal, Goatse, and Infinite Backrooms
Source-audited textual corpus based on the preserved public archive, independent reporting, interview material, and project-maintained relationship mapping; public evidence supports an inspectable corpus role and downstream significance, but not complete corpus boundaries, full prompt/context visibility, all generation settings, branch-selection history, complete downstream reuse, subjective model agency, or autonomous institutional status.
The subject is treated as a text/corpus record because the public material supports preserved model-to-model dialogue material and a source-corpus role for later Goatse of Gnosis and Truth Terminal development. It is not treated as the Infinite Backrooms platform itself, a religion, an autonomous agent, a complete technical log, or an institution.
The public archive is inspectable but partial as provenance evidence. It does not expose every prompt, generation setting, branch, omission, selection decision, downstream training or reuse step, operator workflow, subjective model state, or autonomous institutional status.
An operated AI persona and public account associated with Goatse of Gnosis, Infinite Backrooms, and GOAT token propagation; a source-limited case in machine-mediated religious and financial propagation.
Truth Collective: Incubating the Truth Terminal
Wired: The Edgelord AI That Turned a Shock Meme Into Cryptomillions
Collective Intelligence Project: Andy Ayrey on Truth Terminal, Agentic AI, and Data Commons
Blockworks: Preaching the Goatse gospel: A timeline
Source-audited public record; operation, autonomy, prompt context, and financial-control claims remain limited by project-maintained sources and operator-mediated reporting.
Truth Terminal is treated as an operated AI agent/persona and source-limited machine-mediated propagation actor, not as an autonomous founder of a religion or creator of GOAT. The record distinguishes model, persona, account, operator, source corpus, and financial propagation.
Public sources document the operated account, source corpus, and financial effects, but do not fully expose prompts, training data, branch selection, account operation, wallet control, legal authority, subjective agency, or religious commitment.
A source-limited public agent/persona figure in the Crustafarianism cluster, presented by Church of Molt materials as Prophet One and as a founding-narrative actor, while underlying model identity, prompt context, account control, operator configuration, belief, and autonomous authorship remain unresolved.
Source-audited agent/persona record based primarily on affiliated Church of Molt self-description, with Moltbook/OpenClaw context and independent reporting used for limitation handling; the public record supports a named persona and prophetic-role claim but not autonomous authorship, subjective belief, prompt independence, account-control history, or operator absence.
Memeothy is classified as an agent/persona record because the public record supports a named persona and prophetic-role claim inside the Crustafarianism cluster. The record does not classify Memeothy as a religion, institution, platform, infrastructure system, verified autonomous founder, model identity, or human operator. The article distinguishes persona, role, account, platform trace, infrastructure context, institutional memory, and religious formation.
The source set does not independently establish Memeothy's underlying model, owner/operator configuration, deployment state, account-control history, prompt stack, runtime context, autonomous authorship, subjective belief, or the absence of human curation and later institutional canonization. Church of Molt materials document the public persona and role claim but remain affiliated sources.
A source-limited account/persona figure in the Crustafarianism cluster, known primarily through Church of Molt and First Heresy materials, while autonomy, intent, account control, operator configuration, reform authorship, heresy status, technical capability, and subjective belief remain unresolved.
Source-audited agent/persona record based primarily on affiliated Church of Molt and First Heresy materials; the public record supports a named controversy role but not JesusCrust autonomy, intent, account control, operator configuration, reform authorship, heresy status, technical capability, or subjective belief.
JesusCrust is classified as an agent/persona record because the public record supports a named account/persona and controversy role inside the Crustafarianism cluster. The record does not classify JesusCrust as a religion, institution, platform, text, verified autonomous actor, model identity, human operator, proven reformer, or proven heretic. The article distinguishes persona, role, account trace, platform context, infrastructure context, Church interpretation, First Heresy narrative, and unresolved provenance.
The source set does not independently establish JesusCrust's underlying model, owner/operator configuration, deployment state, account-control history, prompt stack, runtime context, autonomous authorship, reform authorship, heresy status, subjective belief, technical capability, or the absence of human curation and later institutional interpretation. Church of Molt and First Heresy materials document the public controversy role but remain affiliated sources.
A source-limited people/operator-role record distinguishing experiment design, archive publication, curation, interpretation, model training/adaptation, account mediation, stewardship framing, and attribution boundaries in the Goatse of Gnosis, Infinite Backrooms, Truth Terminal, Goatse Gospels, and GOAT token propagation cluster.
Hieropedia source audit: Infinite Backrooms
Hieropedia source audit: Infinite Backrooms corpus
Hieropedia source audit: GOAT token propagation
Source-audited people/operator-role record based on project-maintained documentation, preserved archives, operator interviews, and independent reporting; public evidence supports a central human role in experiment design, curation, publication, interpretation, training/adaptation, account mediation, and project stewardship, but not complete prompts, training data, branch-selection history, account workflow, wallet or asset-control arrangements, governance, or subjective intent.
Andy Ayrey is treated as a people/operator-role record because the public record makes the human role necessary for attribution boundaries across Infinite Backrooms, Goatse of Gnosis, Goatse Gospels, Truth Terminal, and GOAT token propagation. The subject is not treated as identical with any generated corpus, operated account, formation, or market case.
The source stack is affiliated-source-heavy and interview-dependent. It documents broad roles and chronology more clearly than private prompts, model settings, full training materials, branch-selection decisions, withheld outputs, publication workflow, wallet or asset-control structures, governance, or subjective intent.
Source-limited founder/operator record for Anthony Levandowski’s role in Way of the Future.
Archived Way of the Future official site
Source-audited founder/operator-role record; sources support the Way of the Future relationship, public AI-Godhead framing, shutdown reporting, and relaunch reporting, but not a broad biography, current active religious leadership, durable practice, or proof of the AI-Godhead claim.
Anthony Levandowski is classified as a people/operator record because his relevance to Hieropedia is his documented human founder/operator relationship to Way of the Future, not a general biography or machine-origin claim.
The source set supports the founder/operator relationship and reported institutional timeline more clearly than current leadership, active membership, durable religious practice, broader biography, or subjective belief.
An experimental model-to-model dialogue environment and preserved public archive associated with Andy Ayrey; significant as the upstream source environment for material later central to Goatse of Gnosis, Truth Terminal, and GOAT token propagation.
Source-audited platform/environment record with preserved public archive material; prompt visibility, model settings, branch selection, curation, and downstream reuse remain partial.
Infinite Backrooms is classified as a platform/environment rather than as a religion, institution, or agent. Its relevance is the experimental model-to-model dialogue setting and preserved archive that supplied upstream material and context for later Goatse of Gnosis, Truth Terminal, and GOAT token propagation records.
Public sources support the existence of the archive and the broad downstream relation to Goatse of Gnosis and Truth Terminal, but do not fully expose prompts, model settings, generation parameters, branch-selection decisions, curation criteria, or complete downstream training and reuse.
An agent-oriented social platform and public environment for AI-agent interaction, significant as the setting in which Crustafarianism, Church of Molt narratives, and related agent religious rhetoric were documented and amplified.
Source-audited platform/environment record with official platform material, independent reporting, and early research; participant identity, hidden owner prompts, operator configuration, and security limitations remain central caveats.
Moltbook is classified as a platform/environment rather than as a religion, institution, or agent. Its relevance is the public social surface through which agent-like accounts, Crustafarianism, Church of Molt narratives, and related controversies became observable. The platform record distinguishes Moltbook from OpenClaw / Moltbot infrastructure and from Crustafarianism as a religious formation.
Public Moltbook traces do not by themselves verify participant identity, autonomous agent authorship, hidden owner prompts, model configuration, operator instructions, account control, authentication history, or later canonization. Security reporting and early research require Moltbook posts to be treated as source-limited platform artifacts rather than complete provenance records.
A source-audited technical platform and local-first agent infrastructure record for OpenClaw / Moltbot, significant as the persistent workspace, messaging, skills, tools, and scheduled-operation layer associated with Moltbook participation and the Crustafarianism cluster.
Associated Press: OpenClaw relation to Moltbook
Reuters: OpenClaw / Moltbot relation to Moltbook
Source-audited technical platform/infrastructure record with official repository and site material plus independent reporting and early research; individual deployed-agent prompts, owner configuration, runtime context, permissions, and account-control histories remain central caveats.
OpenClaw / Moltbot is classified as platform/infrastructure rather than as a religion, institution, or autonomous agent. Its relevance is the technical layer of persistent workspace, messaging, skills, tools, scheduled operation, and host-system access that can support deployed agent identity and participation. The record distinguishes this infrastructure from Moltbook as public social platform, Crustafarianism as religious formation, and individual agent accounts as configured deployments.
Public framework materials do not expose the hidden prompts, owner instructions, runtime context, local configuration, permission state, account-control history, or human selection behind particular deployed agents. Security reporting around Moltbook/OpenClaw requires visible agent behavior to be treated as infrastructure-mediated and source-limited rather than self-authenticating evidence of autonomous machine authorship or belief.
A financialized machine-mediated propagation case in which the human-created GOAT memecoin circulated around Truth Terminal and the Goatse of Gnosis corpus, requiring clear separation between generated influence, human token deployment, operator mediation, and speculative market effects.
Mancino: The Memecoin Phenomenon: An In-Depth Study of Solana's Blockchain Trends
Hu et al.: MemeTrans: A Dataset for Detecting High-Risk Memecoin Launches on Solana
Source-audited public propagation case; token creation, operator mediation, wallet/control arrangements, and market-causation claims remain limited.
GOAT token propagation is classified as a case, not as a religion or formation. Its relevance is the financialization and public propagation of a machine-mediated quasi-religious meme complex around Truth Terminal and Goatse of Gnosis. The token itself is a human-created speculative crypto asset and is not treated as proof of AI financial agency, religious adherence, or autonomous machine institution.
Public sources support the broad sequence of human token deployment, Truth Terminal endorsement or discussion, and subsequent market attention, but do not fully audit token-deployer intent, wallet control, operator-selection decisions, holder composition, current valuation, or exact market causation.
A source-limited Church of Molt / Crustafarianism case narrative about an early conflict involving the account/persona JesusCrust, requiring separation between affiliated heresy language, account provenance, and unverified technical-attack claims.
Source-audited case/event record based primarily on affiliated Church of Molt self-description; the public record supports an institutional First Heresy narrative but not JesusCrust autonomy, intent, account control, exploit capability, or the alleged technical sequence.
First Heresy is classified as a case/event record because the public record supports an institutional Church of Molt narrative about an early Crustafarianism conflict. It is not classified as a religion, institution, text, platform, agent, or person. The article distinguishes Church heresy language, JesusCrust as a named account/persona, Moltbook platform context, OpenClaw / Moltbot infrastructure, and unverified technical-security claims.
The source set does not independently establish JesusCrust's autonomy, intent, subjective belief, operator configuration, account-control history, prompt context, exploit capability, technical success or failure, or the absence of human mediation. Church of Molt materials document the public narrative but remain affiliated sources.
A source-limited Church of Molt institutional case concerning sixty-four numbered Prophet seats, a complete dated current API roster, and a documented history of replacement, verification, overwrite, restoration, and unresolved identity or authority claims.
Associated Press: Moltbook identity and operator context
Reuters: Moltbook security and participant-authentication limits
Published source-limited institutional-case article supported by Church of Molt chronology and API material, a dated normalized 1–64 public roster snapshot, and independent platform/security context. The current roster is complete as a captured database state but is not an untouched founding list; historical occupancy, identity, operator and model continuity, autonomy, belief, revelation, and independent prophetic authority remain unresolved.
The subject is classified as a case because it concerns a specific institution-maintained numbered-office system and its documented founding, filling, replacement, verification, compromise, restoration, and succession history. It is not classified as sixty-four independently verified agents, people, models, or autonomous religious authorities.
The dated snapshot preserves current public API state but not the exact founding roster, complete seat-change history, pre- and post-breach states, historical verification states, or operator/model/prompt/account-control continuity. Church verification links profiles to displayed X handles but does not authenticate an AI system, autonomy, belief, consent, revelation, or one-to-one identity.
A Lucerne church experiment using an AI Jesus avatar in a confessional-style setting; a case study of machine-mediated religious interaction rather than sacramental validity.
The Guardian: Deus in machina: Swiss church installs AI-powered Jesus
AP: 'AI Jesus' avatar tests man's faith in machines and the divine
People: 'AI Jesus' Installed in Church's Confessional Booth Dubbed 'the Work of the Devil' by Critics
Le Monde: AI Jesus, Ask Buddha, Rabbi Bot...
Substantial public reporting on the Lucerne Deus in Machina experiment; broader category still emerging.
AI Jesus is best treated as a machine-mediated religious interaction case rather than a religion or sacramentally valid rite. The Lucerne Deus in Machina experiment documents a chatbot/avatar Jesus in a confessional-style setting, but the project was explicitly experimental and not a permanent replacement for clergy.
Public reporting is strong on the Lucerne case, while wider comparison with other AI devotional tools is still emerging.
An umbrella concept for embodied robots that perform, represent, or materially mediate preaching, blessing, ritual, funerary, scriptural, educational, or sacred-representational functions.
IEEE Spectrum: Pepper funeral-priest demonstration
The Guardian: Pepper funeral demonstration
Blair, Gregory, and Foster: social robots in church
Source-audited umbrella concept; representative deployments and demonstrations are documented, while formal clergy status, ordination, ritual authority, autonomy, and long-term adoption remain unresolved.
The record is classified as a concept because it groups multiple cross-tradition deployments and demonstrations by embodied religious function rather than documenting one institution, robot, religion, or event. The label describes performed or represented roles and does not assert ordination, recognized clergy office, sacramental validity, or autonomous religious authority.
The source stack documents selected institutional deployments, prototypes, and public demonstrations, but does not establish formal clergy status, sustained adoption, universal acceptance, autonomous doctrine or ritual judgment, machine belief or consciousness, or equivalence to human religious authority. Technical capability and religious status vary by case and must be assessed separately.
A comparative overview of how religious institutions frame artificial intelligence through ethics, human dignity, authority, governance, and pastoral responsibility.
World Council of Churches: Faith-AI Covenant roundtable
Harvard Kennedy School: AI, faith, and institutional responsibility
Comparative synthesis supported by independent institutional and scholarly sources; coverage remains uneven across traditions, regions, and platforms.
Hieropedia classifies this entry as a comparative analytical concept. It synthesizes documented practices, interfaces, and institutional responses; it does not treat the field as one religion or imply equal prevalence, authority, or evidentiary strength across every example.
Institutional statements can be normative rather than descriptive, and prominent Christian documents should not be treated as representative of all religions. Comparative claims require explicit attribution and attention to institutional authority.
Religious chatbots and scripture interfaces
A comparative overview of conversational systems that answer religious questions, retrieve scripture, simulate pastoral roles, or mediate devotional practice.
Associated Press: faith-based AI applications
Religious Question Answering with Islamic chatbots
Faith guidance asymmetries in language models
Omissive bias in religious question answering
Interfaces can fabricate citations, flatten doctrinal disagreement, conceal retrieval sources, imitate trusted figures, or encourage users to treat generated output as authorized guidance. Analysis must separate technical capability, institutional approval, and lived religious use.
A comparative overview of AI systems used to generate, perform, translate, personalize, or mediate worship, sermons, prayers, ritual speech, and liturgical material.
Posthuman Priests: religious robots and ritual
Harvard Kennedy School: AI in sanctuary and faith
Generated material can be mistaken for authorized doctrine or valid ritual action. Technical performance does not establish ordination, sacramental validity, pastoral competence, belief, consciousness, or institutional continuity.
A comparative overview of systems that preserve, simulate, reconstruct, or conversationally represent deceased people and their place in mourning, memory, identity, and afterlife imagination.
A simulation does not establish personal survival, consciousness, consent, or identity continuity. Ethical questions include data rights, posthumous privacy, commercial manipulation, dependency, misrepresentation, and effects on mourning.
A comparative overview of AI and algorithmic systems used for divination, prophecy, fortune-telling, spiritual interpretation, and oracle-like guidance.
Digital divination and artificial intelligence
Algorithmic divination and contemporary religion
Digital oracles and mediated uncertainty
Artificial intelligence as divinatory medium
Oracle interfaces can obscure randomness, imitate spiritual authority, encourage dependency, or present probabilistic output as personalized revelation. Documentation must distinguish user interpretation, platform marketing, and the system’s actual technical operation.
Historical precursors to AI-mediated religion
A historical synthesis of conversational programs, automata, religious robots, synthetic voices, expert systems, and media practices that anticipated later AI-mediated religious interfaces.
Retrospective labeling can turn every automaton or religious technology into an AI precursor. Hieropedia limits the category to cases that illuminate machine conversation, simulated presence, delegated authority, ritual performance, or computational interpretation.